British Birds In Their Haunts

"With A Glossary Of Common And Provincial Names And Of Technical Terms". Edited an Revised by W. B. Alexander. Twenty fifth edition and presumed to be first printing. In god turquoise cloth boards with blind stamped bird of prey to front and gilt titles to spine. The boards are flat, quite firm, with one small mark to front and bumped spine ends and corners; worn sides of spine. The end papers are unmarked; there is an attractive book plate on the front paste down. The text block is illustrated "with 64 coloured plates (251 figures) by William Foster and 5 black and black and white plates by Roland Green. The coloured plates are very pretty. The pages are quite securely attached and even, a few of the pages with plates towards the rear are tanned around the edges. Otherwise the pages are not tanned, foxed or marked. A few of the colour plates towards the end have ragged edges. Not annotated. Good plus condition. Without jacket.